Your LIFE: YOU CAN.. GET A NATURAL DESIGNER BATHROOM ON A HIGH-STREET BUDGET; SHOPPING.Byline: BY CAROLINE COOK1. TRANSFORM your bathroom by replacing boring white tiles with darker tones, using bathroom paint, panelling or tiles on walls and floors. Accessorise with touches of orange to bring out the deeper colours. Solero orange roller blind Noun 1. roller blind - a window shade that rolls up out of the way roller - a cylinder that revolves window shade - an opaque window blind that can cover or uncover a window roller blind n (BRIT , made to measure prices from pounds 41, Web Blinds (0800 169 3938, www.web-blinds.com) 2. CHOOSE freestanding free·stand·ing adj. Standing or operating independently of anything else: a freestanding bell tower; a freestanding maternity clinic. accessories, such as a laundry bin in dark woven A woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the Bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic. Woven cloth usually frays at the edges, unless measures are taken to counter this, such as the use of pinking shears or hemming. materials. Lavar tobacco rattan rattan (rătăn`), name for a number of plants of the genera Calamus, Daemonorops, and Korthalsia climbing palms of tropical Asia, belonging to the family Palmae (palm family). laundry bin, pounds 49, Habitat (08444 991 111, www.habitat.net) 3. CREATE the right mood to enjoy your new room. For the perfect relaxing bath, light a few scented candles. Essence candles, from pounds 4.50 and Kingston dark wood tray, from pounds 8, all Habitat (08444 991 111, www.habitat.net) 4. TAKE a leaf out of Kelly Hoppen's design book and pile up a lavish collection of the cotton-bordered hand towels, from pounds 8 each, she designed for Bhs (0845 1960 000, www.bhs.co.uk) 5. ENSURE all the smaller accessories you choose are made from natural materials to keep the theme going. Bamboo bamboo, plant of the family Gramineae (grass family), chiefly of warm or tropical regions, where it is sometimes an extremely important component of the vegetation. It is most abundant in the monsoon area of E Asia. soap dispenser, pounds 4.99, and soap dish, pounds 3.99, both from a larger collection by Sainsbury's (0800 636 262, www.sainsburys.co.uk |
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